“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”

“I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don't matter anymore.”

“Don’t matter if you care,” the old miner said, “if you don’t own what you care about.”

“Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”

“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.”

“Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”